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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Islington 1859
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]
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slowly making progress, and cases of measles, scarlet fever, and hooping
cough are all more frequent than in March of former years. Of the two cases
of cholera, one has been mentioned above; the other occurred in an adult
residing at 7, Baldwin'3-gardens. This person recovered.
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health,.
42, Myddelton Square,
April 7 th, 1859.